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To prefer punishment to disgraceful gain; for the one is painful but once, but the other for one’s whole life.

— Chilon of Sparta

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Seek no excess—all timely things are good.

To be more prompt to go to one’s friends in adversity than in prosperity.

To make but a moderate display at one’s marriage.

To threaten no one; for that is a womanly trick.

To rule one’s tongue, especially at a banquet, and not to speak ill of one’s neighbors; for if one does so one is sure to hear what one will not like.

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